Meryl Streep Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Self, Acting

• I need to go where people are serious about acting.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Acting, Needs

• My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Acting, Emotion

• The work will stand, no matter what.

  Meryl Streep

  Acting, Matter, No Matter What

• Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

  Meryl Streep

  Art, Empathy, Acting

• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

• All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

  Meryl Streep

  Faith, Blind Belief, Acting

• I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

• I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Super trouper of the silver screen" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

• Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Skills, Survival

• Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

  Meryl Streep

  Play, Skills, Acting

  Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

• Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Interesting, Acting

• Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

  Meryl Streep

  Feelings, Singing, Acting

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Husband, Joy

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Essence

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.

  Meryl Streep

  Letting Go, Art, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

  Meryl Streep

  Communication, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Acting, Moments

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

  Meryl Streep

  Acting, Needs, Actors

• I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

  Meryl Streep

  Kids, Thinking, Acting

  Source: the-talks.com

• While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

  Meryl Streep

  Believe, Awards, Acting

• I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

  Meryl Streep

  Years, Giving, Acting

  "Meryl Streep on 'Marvin's Room'". Interview with Henri Behar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

• One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

  Meryl Streep

  Mean, Keys, Shoes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

  Meryl Streep

  Fun, Acting, Way

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